Advanced Spanish Challenge: Listen and Repeat These Sentences

When you're consuming Spanish in print or audio form, it's easy to fall into Spectator Mode and spend hours listening or reading without actually producing any Spanish. The best way to avoid the passive consumption trap is to actively engage with the content you're consuming.

[seichanhalliwell]

Holy moly how do you only have 5k subs (almost), this is top quality content! You need to advertise this channel more, I'm sure a ton of peeps would find this useful if it popped up on their feed! As for me this is exactly what I've been looking for, thank you SO much!

[samsonbrody]

This is the perfect channel for where my Spanish is at. I'm so glad I found this!!

[shaunmcmahon]

Just watched this video again for the second time today after watching it yesterday. Definitely felt a huge improvement in my retention of the phrases and my pronunciation and the fluidity with which I could repeat them.

Absolutely love your work Nacho, you’re producing an invaluable and unique resource, and your videos are definitely now a part of my daily Spanish practice. Will be supporting you on Patreon soon and looking forward to more content.

Cheers!

[kieleymedinger]

Finally this is getting easier! Thank you so much for these videos Nacho (and please please make more🙏)

[AlexGW]

One of the things I love about spoken Spanish are the shared vowels between words in sentences. For many it can be tricky to catch but once you notice and understand it, it clicks!

[ThomasAlexNorman]

Genial! Este video es exactamente qué necesité. Voy a mirar todos que tienes !

[jeremiahloeb]

I came back to this video many months after first finding it and it hits so well now! Going to be doing this again tomorrow and keep practicing. Thanks for this content.

[catherineleary]

Nacho is GREAT! His teaching is EXACTLY what intermediate students need in order to become fluent. Traditional classroom teachers speak at a moderate rate, pronouncing each word separately and distinctly. What students learn from this traditional style of teaching is the "radio announcer" version of a language - BBC English. A student who has been traditionally taught can understand a news program but is lost in a group of native speakers, because when native speakers converse with each other, they speak FAST. Students who wish to become truly fluent must learn from the beginning to have "quick ears" and this is what Nacho teaches. If you think Nacho's videos are too hard, do an easy lesson, then come back to Nacho. Spend ten minutes a day with Nacho, going over the same video again and again until your brain starts to get used to the speed, then move to a different Nacho video for a couple of days, then come back to the first one. At first, this will be difficult, even frustrating, then all of a sudden the "click" happens and your brain figures out how to hear Spanish.

[donnymurph]

Nacho, mereces más reconocimiento en esta plataforma, pues existe un montón de vídeos para principiantes hasta el nivel intermedio, pero después de eso se encuentra una carencia de contenido para los que realmente quieren (o deben) perfeccionar su español. Tengo 9 meses viviendo en México y ya he logrado un nivel bastante avanzado, pues puedo platicar sobre una gama de asuntos. No obstante entre más que aumento mi nivel, mejor. Veo muchos vídeos hechos para nativos y eso es genial, pero no son vídeos educativos que me desafían a producir más español. Libros de texto son increíblemente útiles, pero el idioma existe afuera de ellos también.

[jannaswigart]

Me encantan tus videos...!!!! Son tan útiles para mi nivel! Y tienes razón con tu metáfora! Muchísimas gracias!

[jimpuckett]

Nacho, today I broke out of passive learning, a BIG step forward. Muchas gracias para la orientación entusiasma!

[pipperlue]

This is a bit too hard for me but I can definitely feel my brain working in ways that are useful for me. I do way too much passive learning and I’ve really hit a wall when it comes to speaking. This is a really cool video

[__her]

Me encanta este video. Me frustró, me enseñó, y me ayudó. Volvaré a verlo mañana. Gracias, Nacho.

[deajae]

Yes! Hace mucho tiempo que he practicado espanol regularmente pero siempre estaba en un nivel avanzado/conversacional pero todavía no podía entender los hablantes reales de español y hacerme fluente! Tengo ganas de ver mas de tus videos.

[mjthx]

Thank you Nacho for these useful videos. I have been struggling since my year abroad to move past intermediate level, but it's been exceedingly difficult. I hope that this active learning approach does some good for my spanish and hopefully I'll be less likely to fumble when speaking. I'm also glad that an intermediate purgatory is recognised as real thing, because I thought I was going crazy as everyone else seems to have progressed more than myself. I'll keep trying to be positive!

[petermarsh]

What a great video. Very challenging but an excellent analogy between driving in a city, taking control and learning a language. Thanks

[mlg]

I laughed out loud when I heard you ask if you are stuck in intermediate Spanish purgatory. That is exactly how I feel. Living in Ohio makes it very difficult to leave that space. I agree 100% with your analogy of passive and active learning. Spanish is my passion and your videos are fantastic and perfect for my level. I work in medicine and would love for you to do a few videos of people complaining or describing their symptoms. - like a rash, headache, aches and pains. That would be so helpful.

[FemaleObserver]

I'n the early 1980's I taught spanish at univerisities as a second language in a country where Spanish was hardly if at all spoken; none of my family even spoke it. Those years there were no you tube, no special cds to learn it, I went to a class that was held once a week by spanish ladies for 2 hours and a half. I fell in love wiht it that i would read all magazines (no books hardly even) and those magazines had every meaning in English where I would search from an english dictionary. The only lisening that i could get after the classes were over was from an sw1 band and it was even a football announcing that i would hear at past midnight. I didn't know by doing all these I would be then become a teacher at university because i became so good at it that it impressed the spnaish teachers that taught me. Then almost 40 years after here i am translating a tour of Spanish people and I was amazed that I could still remember the words and went along very well in translating and explaining places around my city I'm so proud of myself to having learned spanish and remember it over the years. Most of all, because i was trained by Spanish teachers from spain like this guy is from, i find it almost impossible to understand speakers from Puerto Rico and those from latin america. Mexicans yes :), because i was once teaching english to a mexican family. I guess we just need to expose ourselves a bit more by people who speak it then it becomes easier. However, i find myself easier to undrstand and become even relaxed when im conversing with what i've been used to teach: the spanish people from Spain.

[shaemclean]

Muchas gracias ¡Me encanta este video!

[katharinadittus]

Muchas gracias ! Estos videos me ayudan mucho a estudiar Español 👍